Guitars... what you've got / what you want

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Bit confused milo, a noiseless pickup cancels electrical hum but won’t solve microphonic issues, which are usually the covers or pickguard vibrating? Or is it just a good excuse to buy Kinmans which are meant to be pretty great?

My understanding was that microphony is a physical issue with the pickup coils (and can be fixed by re-wax potting the pickup) - since I'd have to mail it to someone anyway for re-potting and wait for it to get done and come back I figured it wasn't worth the effort. Any pickup swap would have worked but the Kinmans sound good.

only guitar adjacent but this would be a very stupid and fun thing to have (if they were still 1/3 this price like a few years ago)

https://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/ele/d/dallas-tascam-388-studio-track-tape/7575295735.html

xp True that can be the case, but it's basically any acoustic vibration which makes the coils move and hence generates a signal responding to the sound. Potting reduces the coil's ability to move, but sometimes it can be that the pickup and pickguard are rubbing against each other, or the pickup cover is slightly loose. On Jaguars the claws are notorious for vibrating and that makes pickups microphonic too.
Kinmans are built so differently to a JM single coil that it's very likely they'd be unaffected by whatever is goosing the existing pickup. Apparently they sound great too, and even a shielded JM is a sea of noise so it's a good choice regardless!

Love that Elliot Easton SG, looks a lot like the Rosetta Tharpe SG which I always coveted (except that one has three pickups).

Brittany Howard has a great Inverness Green SG Custom (I think I saw an interview where she said Gibson gave it to her after she appeared on SNL or the Tonight Show or something).

so the TvL Jazzmaster is an absolute peach

I have neither use for nor money for another guitar but that Lake Placid Blue looks so good

https://wildwoodguitars.com/product/V2210636/american-vintage-ii-1966-jazzmaster-6/?cat_id=21781

Kind of sucks that they went with the smaller headstock than the big CBS headstock though

i find that incredibly frustrating, big headstock is absolutely right on those blingy mid-60s offsets

I love the giant CBS headstock on everything.

They need to give the LPB '73 Stratocaster a rosewood neck
https://www.williesguitars.com/wp-content/uploads/av273.jpg

not a fan of the big headstock. looks like a weird growth and is unnecessary

no big headstock here alas:
https://i.imgur.com/AcB5872.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ZnIXZ8r.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/t8DTbkV.jpg

not a fan of the big headstock. looks like a weird growth and is unnecessary

― calstars, Friday, January 13, 2023 9:10 AM

Seconded. I've never seen a big headstock Fender that wouldn't look better with a regular headstock.

Did jazzmaster headstocks ever change size? I thought they always maintained a size somewhere between the og strat abd cbs strat sizes?

yep, went big 1966-1982

I really like the color scheme of the Van Leeuwen Jazzmaster, btw, but along with the embiggened headstock I'm also not a fan of block inlays on, well, all Fenders.

https://reverb.com/item/65090698-mjt-jaguar-2020-ocean-turquoise-60-s-clone-john-frusciante-vibes-leslee-onboard-seymour-duncan-fender-parts-musikraft-neck

Never heard of the Leslee system, like a built in stereo Univibe where it alternates between the neck and bridge pickups while you play.

Amazing! The relic is a little overcooked but man that is a pretty guitar.

“Are these authentic scrapes?”

https://reverb.com/item/64321806-gepettos-guild-metro-jaguar-new-york-guitar?utm_source=rev-ios-app&utm_medium=ios-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=64321806

think I saw that one sticking out of a trash can on st marks place last night

::vomits::

some cities have events where the schoolkids paint an old piano for fundraising

does it come with vomit residue

"what's this stain?"

That is a lot of painstaking workmanship to make a guitar look like steaming garbage

I can imagine ripping your fingers up on those soda cap knobs.

lol

https://reverb.com/item/36188512-the-metrocaster-new-york-stratocaster

wow that seller.. the Back To The Future Mustang…

the license plate in the middle just deeply bothers me, the rest of it is terrible but that puts me over the edge

maybe because nothing says NYC like cars

What I love is the juxtaposition of graffiti art and pictures of boomboxes and shit with The Late Show with David Letterman and ticket stubs from Hamilton and shit.

and shit

i hate license plates used in any kind of "art"

the snl fret is just awful

lol the builder is in Dallas

The Back to the Future guitars should have had built in Plasma Drives.

https://vintageking.com/media/catalog/product/cache/c8660c81d7196df55c33284290821786/g/a/gamechanger-plasma-drive-euro_114918_1.jpg

and it’s a Jazzmaster if anything, find me a single Jag feature.

https://eddiesguitars.com/product/electric/electric-guitar-categories/solid-body-electric-guitars/fender-american-vintage-ii-1966-jazzmaster-3-color-sunburst/

Looks like Fender got the memo about using the wrong headstock on the new AVII Jazzmasters

https://i.imgur.com/JzTKIAn.jpg

What model is this?

I think a B C Rich Mockingbird?

Ah BC rich sounds right. I guess I’ve only seen the later models but the shape is distinctive

definitely a Mockingbird

glad someone knew "looks like an Ibanez Iceman but pointier" was not returning results on Google

https://i.redd.it/sfk2mjco95o01.jpg

A thing I am not going to say out loud: the pointier your guitar is, the less I want to hear your music

But I am certainly thinking it

This is something I think about sometimes: there must be someone somewhere who uses a pointy shredder guitar to make decidedly non-shredder music, right? But it seems to just not ever happen.

Sleigh Bells?